Rogério Gaspar is the director of the Department of Regulation and Prequalification at the World Health Organization (WHO). He was for the last 36 years an academic, with extensive international regulatory experience during the last 26 years. Previously, among other positions, he was vice president of INFARMED, and a member of the management board of the European Medicines Agency (2000–2002), vice rector of the University of Lisbon (2013–2017), and member of the executive committee and vice president of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Sciences (EUFEPS, 2009–2013 and 2016–2020). A researcher in nanomedicine since 1986, he was also involved in regulatory science and health systems projects in recent years.